6 JUNE 1908, page 14

A Thrush's Nest.

LTo Tar Eorroa or Tin "BracriAroi.1 SIR, — As a regular reader of your paper for more than thirty years, I know what interest you take in questions of natural history, and I am......

Co-operation And Socialism.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT08"1 Sin,—In your issue of May 23rd you write: "With the voluntary Socialism of Cs-operation we have no quarrel." May I put to YOU the following......

The Life And Adventures Of A Yellow- Hammer.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THS "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Everybody knows the yellowhammer. One cannot walk along a turnpike road, or on a common among gorse- bushes, or through narrow lanes......

The New Irish University.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] Sra,—In the year 1873 I was a guest at the hospitable table of the Fathers at Maynooth. The venerable Dr. Rupell pre- sided, and his urbanity......

German Enterprise.

[To THU EDITOR, OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—We hear so much in these days of German enterprise and supremacy in business that the following facts may not be without interest. I......